omg..japan was fantastic...everything there was perfect...or to some extent, really unbelievable...the toilet bowls are digital...the music is great, their gimmicks at concerts are fantastic, the amt of space that the school sets apart for the bands are really eye-openers, the food is really delicious, the ppl are really nice and the weather is really really great...can u believe if RI will set apart like say 2 floors of the admin block for us???i dunt think so, but thats wad the jap bands have...and one of them have a whole building to themselves...that was the one that really makes me green with envy...oh and not forgetting that they have practices every day of the week, with each prac at least 4 hours long...and the cheap instruments..(a xeno only costs like 4 k sing over there), the books that they have which will help them improve and the overwhelming musical talents over there whom those students can look up for if they want some professional help...over here in s'pore, band is just something that u spend your afternoons at...if you are lucky, you may be discovered by some scout and taken for intensive training, but thats where it all ends...if only RI can place more emphasis on band and make us something that they can really be proud of...no offence to the rugby team, but HEY, if u guys havent won anything significant for the past decade, maybe its time for the school to start looking for something more impressive, other than studies...we are good at studies, but in the real world, studies is not everything...sigh...how i wish i was in those jap schools...
